Grain harvester and binder



' (No Model.)

G. F.. MESSINGER.

GRAIN HARVBSTER AND BINDER. No. 326,443. Patented Sept. '15, 1885 WITNESSES UNITED STATES GEORGE FRANKLIN MESSINGER, OF STOGKERTOWVN, PENNSYLVANIA.

GRAIN HARVESTER AND BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 326,443, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed November 17, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE FRANKLIN MESSINGER, of Stockertown, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Grain-Harvester and Twine- Binder; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference to be had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

This invention has relation to that class of machines known as grain harvesters and binders; and it consists substantially in the parts as constructed and in the particular combinations to be hereinafter distinctly described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing, as much of a machine is shown in perspective as is necessary to illus trate my invention.

Referring to the several parts therein shown by the letters of reference, A represents the platform on which the grain is received, and B represents as a whole the frame-work for supporting the elevating aprons and the binder-table.

The front of the elevator consists of a single piece, a, having mounted therein, near its ends, one end of the journals or shafts of the upper and lower rollers by which the endless carrier-aprons are operated, said piece a serving to close at the front the space be tween the aprons. The ends of the rollershafts at the rear of the elevator are borne by independent strips, as represented at a a, thereby producing an opening or space at such end or side of the machine between the two carrier-aprons, as shown.

C 0 represent, respectively, a top piece connecting with the upper ends of the front piece, a, and the rear upper strip, a, in which the end of the rollers for the outer or auxiliary apron are borne, and a strip extending across the front and back pieces at near the lower extremity of the outer apron. These portions are connected at their corresponding ends to the rear of the elevator by iron or other strong braces, (indicated by 1 2 3,)serving thereby as a means of holding the parts rigidly together and strengthening the same. They also connect with adjuncts of the bindertable, which forms no part of the present invention, however. The said binder-table is represented at D, and is adapted to be shifted or moved sidewise by means of a lever, cl, so that tall or short grain may be bound at proper points of length.

vAn apron-roller, E, is borne between the two sides of the receiving-platform, as shown. the same serving to facilitate easy feeding of the grain between the elevating-aprons 0 c, an apron or belt being carried by said roller when necessary.

Supported by an extension, e, from the binder-table and a corresponding projecting portion of the machine at near the lower extremity of the elevator (marked 6) is a shelf or ledge, g, which forms a bed or support for the heads of the grain in its passage between the aprons while being elevated to the table D.

The same or corresponding side of the platform A is in like manner provided with an extensible shelf or hinged support, h, which.

folds outwardly to coincide with the shelf 9, thereby providing means by which the grain may be transferred from the platform to the 'elevator without obstruction and without breaking, tangling, or shelling the same.

By the construction herein described it will be apparent that machines of this character may be built in such manner as to very materially decrease their width, consequently rendering them much lighter and economizing in the amount of material used in their manufacture.

The rollers which carry the aprons are operated or made to revolve by a suitable crankwheel chain, (not shown,) and the operation of the parts will be readily apparent.

By having the rear of the elevator left open the grain ofa length greater than the width of the elevator will pass freely between the aprons and be delivered upon the bindertable, where it is bound in suitable sheaves and then discharged therefrom; and by providing the supports for the heads of the grain much difficulty is avoided, in that the grain does not become tangled or doubled up, and

3. The combination oftheframe-pieces a a, 15 extensions '6 6', strips 0 G,'braces 1 2 3, rollers E, shelves or ledges g h, with the platform D, a substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my ownI affix my signature in presence of two 20 consequently it does not hang together and prevent a free discharge of the same from between the upper extremities of the aprons;

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim is 1. The combination of the frame-pieces a a,

the. extensions 6 6, strips 0 G, braces 1 2 3, witnesses.

rollers E, and shelves or ledges g and h, substantially as set forth. GEORGE FRANKLIN MESSINGER. 1o 2. lnaharvester-elevator, the combination, v

with the roller-bearing frame-pieces a and a \Vit-nesses:

and the extensions 6 e, of the strips 0 O and OWEN H. RADER,

their connecting strengthening-braces 1 2 3, M. WV. ARNER.

as described. 

